I assumed the gp was thinking about 9.8m/s^2 — because on the English speaking non-physics-expert world, this is called the acceleration due to gravity.
You’re right that it’s distance, of course, but I was coming from a place of trying to be helpful, and thought that if they were talking about terrestrial physics, it’d be easiest to imply it depended on the size of the earth (which determines our distance from it) and your height.
I don't buy that you were coming to this from a place of trying to be helpful. I know that here on HN, we're supposed to assume good motives in other posters, but I just can't do it, here.
I think you were trying to score points, and get an ego fix by correcting someone else.
Not so much fun when someone else dunks on you, though, is it?
That’s not something that could change based on experiment though. We define standard gravity as 9.80665 m/s^2 but the actual value will vary considerably based on location on the earth.
You’re right that it’s distance, of course, but I was coming from a place of trying to be helpful, and thought that if they were talking about terrestrial physics, it’d be easiest to imply it depended on the size of the earth (which determines our distance from it) and your height.